Just back from "Delphi 2016 Congress" in Paris yesterday. It is always refreshing to meet Delphi developers, show the latest features in the product and to simply have fun!
This time I have teamed up with Maxime Capellot from Barnsten to do the keynote presentation. I do not speak French, so Maxime was doing the slides and I was showing technical Delphi 10.1 demos including the new installer, Windows 10 VCL controls, MongoDB support, multi-device form designer and styles. It worked quite well. It was the first time to present for Maxime and he did exceptionally well:-)
The audience in the conference centre was very happy to see that Delphi is going in the right direction and that there is a bright future ahead. Lunch was really good. There were multiple courses and after two hours all happy faces showed up in the presentation room again.
To increase the energy levels Delphi congress resumed with the short video showing one of the most successful Delphi applications "FL Studio" - music production software used by Afrojack, Martin Garrix and many other top stars.
Bruno Fierens from TMS Software demonstrated the new framework for custom Delphi components that he is working on. It is called "Framework Neutral Controls" ("FNC") and is designed to have just one codebase for implementing custom VCL, FireMonkey and Lazarus controls. That is very interesting. Interestingly Bruno is also from time to time having fun being a DJ.
Delphi conferences are special. There are hardly any random attendees. Only hardcode Delphi passionate geeks with many years of experience. Talking about Delphi technology is what drives us, but it is also super from time to time to meet in person with Delphi friends.
I had great time and looking forward to meeting Thierry Laborde, William Wittwer, Bruno Fierens, Didier Cabale, Felix Colibri and many others great people!
I'm looking forward to the Delphi conference next week in the Netherlands! If you are around Tuesday, September 20th, join us at the "Enjoy the Code!" Delphi Festival 2016 in NBC Congress Centrum in Nieuwegein!
Yesterday there was the opening of Amsterdam Open Beacon Network. This is the new initiative to turn Amsterdam into a smart city and open the installed infrastructure of beacons and other IoT sensors to developers that want to create innovative apps.
During my keynote presentation next week on the "Enjoy the Code" we are going to have a special guest Jonathan Carter from Amsterdam IoT Living Lab (http://iotlivinglab.com/) that will explain how developers can integrate their apps with Amsterdam Open Beacon Network using different IoT protocols.
